Software architecture has long sought the attention of agile developers, but its love is unrequited. For decades, architects have offered up gifts to teams. In response, developers responded with little more than a raised eyebrow. As result, teams that blend principles and practices are rare.

In a seminal paper, Ekman (1979) remarks that brows can play an accentuation role (e.g., to signal focus). However, the literature about eyebrows is inconclusive about their exact role and as a consequence there is no agreement among developers of embodied conversational agents about their precise timing and placement. In addition, it is unclear whether eyebrow movements perform the same role i...

Medical ethics attaches the utmost priority to the confidentiality of medical records. Hence, the decision of the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) rendered on April 10, 2015 in Case No: CIC/KY/A/2014/001348SA Ms Jyoti Jeena v. PIO, Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Science (hereinafter referred to as Jyoti Jeena), that the wife-applicant is entitled to get copies of the medical reco...

BACKGROUND Conventional frontalis transfer may cause a range of complications. In order to overcome complications, we made modifications to the surgical technique, and compared the outcomes of patients who underwent conventional frontalis transfer with those of patients who underwent modified frontalis transfer. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of 48 patients (78 eyes) who underwent...

The human eye is unique amongst those of primates in having white sclera against which the dark iris is clearly visible. This high-contrast structure makes the gaze direction of a human potentially easily perceptible to others. For a social creature such as a human, the ability to perceive the direction of another's gaze may be very useful, since gaze usually signals attention. We report data s...

OBJECTIVE To compare soft tissue and fat volumes in the supraorbital area of healthy patients and patients with thyroid-associated orbitopathy (TAO) using 3-dimensional reconstruction software. METHODS The superiolateral orbital area was delineated on a bony framework. Three-dimensional reconstruction and volumetric calculation of the retro-orbicularis oculi fat (brow fat), galeal fat (includ...

In recent years there has been a reappraisal of the surgical principles concerned in the management of the ophthalmic complications of facial nerve paralysis. This is especially mirrored in the utilization of the palpebral spring (Morel-Fatio and Lalardrie, I967) and of silicone cerclage (Arion, I972) in an attempt to produce dynamic restoration of lid function. A more vigorous approach is also...

Betapapillomavirus (betaPV) DNA and seroresponses are highly prevalent in the general population and both are frequently used as infection markers in epidemiological studies to elucidate an association with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Little is known about the natural history of betaPV infection and the aspects of infection that drive antibody responses. To investigate the relation...

What about gaze as a communicative signal? In contrast to other primates, humans have evolved a large white sclera and marked eyebrows, making the eye region highly conspicuous and ideally suited for gaze following, and it has been argued that this is an evolutionary byproduct of the cooperative nature of humans. Not only can humans follow gaze, but they can also use gaze to actively direct eac...